- With a Hello Kitty retrospective coming up at the Japanese American National Museum, a Hello Kitty scholar has stomped all over the dreams of kawaii-eyed youth by revealing hat Hello Kitty is not a cat: “She is a little girl. She is a friend. But she is not a cat.” In sum, Hello Kitty and Garfield belong to two different cartoon genome pools. [Culture: High & Low]
- Russell Page’s garden at the Frick is being demolished to make way for the upcoming expansion. The Frick claims that the garden, once hailed by the New York Times as one of Page’s “most important works,” was never meant to be permanent. As a 1977 press release shows, though, this is a flat out lie. Who knew the Frick could be so controversial. [The Huffington Post]
- If several thousand dollar easter egg hunts disguised as art are your kind of thing: ArtistMichael Sailstorferburies gold bars at the Folkstone triennial at high tide and waits patiently for low tide. At that point finders will be keepers. From a statement to the Guardian by Triennial curator Lewis Biggs: “I think we might well have a lot of people.” [The Guardian]
- Adrian Searle has the review of the Folkstone Triennial. There’s a discussion of the Sailstorfer piece, a round-up of works Searle liked, and some complaints about Yoko Ono and Andy Goldsworthy. Meh. [The Guardian]
- Ben Lerner’s new novel, 10:04, gets a thumbs up in the New Republic, and I can tell why. This narrator in the novel writes 10:04 as you’re reading it, and there’s scenes that blend non-fiction and sci-fi nearly seamlessly, like one where the protagonist starts having visions while walking along the High Line after eating a plate of hallucinogenic octopus. [New Republic]
- Some notes on gigantic rabbit breeds: the now-extinct Minorcan King of Rabbits, due to its weight, was unable to hop. [Modern Farmer]
- Hissbitch published “5 worst net artists” for Christmas last year, and at the time, blogger Tom Moody predicted the post would be deleted, just as their “10 worst net artist” post. We ran across Moody’s post again yesterday, and as predicted the Hissbitch post was deleted. So too is Hissbitch, which now seems to be taken over by Chinese characters. [Tom Moody]
- The Nasher is looking for an Assistant Curator. [American Alliance of Museums]
- Glenn Ligon in association with MZ Wallace has created a tote bag to benefit the Studio Museum in Harlem. [MZ Wallace]
- Season seven of ART21 will showcase a topic that’s been close to us on the blog. For the show’s debut episode, they followed Thomas Hirschhorn around to discuss the Gramsci Monument at Forest Houses, described as “a new kind of monument that, while physically ephemeral, lives on in collective memory.” That episode premieres Friday, October 24 at 10:00 p.m. ET. [ART21]
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